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   habitant
         n 1: a person who inhabits a particular place [syn:
               {inhabitant}, {habitant}, {dweller}, {denizen},
               {indweller}]

English Dictionary: hepatoma by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
have down
v
  1. have (something) mastered; "She has the names of the fifty states down pat"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hebdomad
n
  1. any period of seven consecutive days; "it rained for a week"
    Synonym(s): week, hebdomad
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hebdomadal
adj
  1. of or occurring every seven days; "a weekly visit"; "weekly paper"
    Synonym(s): weekly, hebdomadal, hebdomadary
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hebdomadally
adv
  1. without missing a week; "she visited her aunt weekly"
    Synonym(s): hebdomadally, weekly, every week, each week
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hebdomadary
adj
  1. of or occurring every seven days; "a weekly visit"; "weekly paper"
    Synonym(s): weekly, hebdomadal, hebdomadary
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
heftiness
n
  1. possessing muscular strength [syn: brawn, brawniness, muscle, muscularity, sinew, heftiness]
  2. the property of being large in mass
    Synonym(s): heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderousness, ponderosity
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hepadnavirus
n
  1. a group of animal DNA viruses including viruses of ducks and woodchucks and squirrels and others as well as the virus causing hepatitis B in humans
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hepatoma
n
  1. carcinoma of the liver [syn: hepatoma, {malignant hepatoma}, hepatocarcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hepatomegaly
n
  1. abnormal enlargement of the liver [syn: hepatomegaly, megalohepatia]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
heptane
n
  1. a colorless volatile highly flammable liquid obtained from petroleum and used as an anesthetic or a solvent or in determining octane ratings
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hippodamia
n
  1. genus of ladybugs
    Synonym(s): Hippodamia, genus Hippodamia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hippodamia convergens
n
  1. a variety of ladybug
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hoofed mammal
n
  1. any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically
    Synonym(s): ungulate, hoofed mammal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hypotension
n
  1. abnormally low blood pressure [ant: high blood pressure, hypertension]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hypotensive
adj
  1. having abnormally low blood pressure [ant: hypertensive, normotensive]
n
  1. a person who has abnormally low blood pressure
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hypotenuse
n
  1. the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hypotonia
n
  1. (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic [syn: hypotonia, hypotonus, hypotonicity]
    Antonym(s): hypertonia, hypertonicity, hypertonus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hypotonic
adj
  1. (of living tissue) lacking normal tone or tension [ant: hypertonic]
  2. (of a solution) having a lower osmotic pressure than a comparison solution
    Antonym(s): hypertonic, isosmotic, isotonic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hypotonicity
n
  1. (of a solution) the extent to which a solution has a lower osmotic pressure than some other
    Antonym(s): hypertonicity
  2. (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic
    Synonym(s): hypotonia, hypotonus, hypotonicity
    Antonym(s): hypertonia, hypertonicity, hypertonus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hypotonus
n
  1. (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic [syn: hypotonia, hypotonus, hypotonicity]
    Antonym(s): hypertonia, hypertonicity, hypertonus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   .
  
      Note: There are several species so named, as the pilot
               whales, of the genus {Globicephalus}, and one or more
               species of {Hypero[94]don} ({H. bidens}, etc.), found
               on the European coast. See {Blackfish}, 1.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Habiitancy \Habi"it*an*cy\, n.
      Same as {Inhabitancy}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Habitan \Ha`bi`tan"\, n.
      Same as {Habitant}, 2.
  
               General met an emissary . . . sent . . . to ascertain
               the feelings of the habitans or French yeomanry. --W.
                                                                              Irwing.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Habitance \Hab"it*ance\, n. [OF. habitance, LL. habitania.]
      Dwelling; abode; residence. [Obs.] --Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Habitant \Hab`it*ant\, n. [F. habitant. See {Habit}, v. t.]
      1. An inhabitant; a dweller. --Milton. Pope.
  
      2. [F. pron.] An inhabitant or resident; -- a name applied to
            and denoting farmers of French descent or origin in
            Canada, especially in the Province of Quebec; -- usually
            in plural.
  
                     The habitants or cultivators of the soil. --Parkman.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Habit \Hab"it\ (h[acr]b"[icr]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Habited};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Habiting}.] [OE. habiten to dwell, F.
      habiter, fr. L. habitare to have frequently, to dwell,
      intens. fr. habere to have. See {Habit}, n.]
      1. To inhabit. [Obs.]
  
                     In thilke places as they [birds] habiten. --Rom. of
                                                                              R.
  
      2. To dress; to clothe; to array.
  
                     They habited themselves lite those rural deities.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      3. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.] Chapman.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hebdomad \Heb"do*mad\, n. [L. hebdomas, -adis, Gr. "ebdoma`s the
      number seven days, fr. [?] seventh, [?] seven. See {Seven}.]
      A week; a period of seven days. [R.] --Sir T. Browne.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hebdomadal \Heb*dom"a*dal\, Hebdomadary \Heb*dom"a*da*ry\, a.
      [L. hebdomadalis, LL. hebdomadarius: cf. F. hebdomadaire.]
      Consisting of seven days, or occurring at intervals of seven
      days; weekly.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hebdomadally \Heb*dom"a*dal*ly\, adv.
      In periods of seven days; weekly. --Lowell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hebdomadal \Heb*dom"a*dal\, Hebdomadary \Heb*dom"a*da*ry\, a.
      [L. hebdomadalis, LL. hebdomadarius: cf. F. hebdomadaire.]
      Consisting of seven days, or occurring at intervals of seven
      days; weekly.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hebdomadary \Heb*dom"a*da*ry\, n. [LL. hebdomadarius: cf. F.
      hebdomadier.] (R. C. Ch.)
      A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to
      officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on
      extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hebdomatical \Heb`do*mat"ic*al\, a. [L. hebdomaticus, Gr. [?].]
      Weekly; hebdomadal. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heft \Heft\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hefted} ({Heft}, obs.); p. pr.
      & vb. n. {Hefting}.]
      1. To heave up; to raise aloft.
  
                     Inflamed with wrath, his raging blade he heft.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
      2. To prove or try the weight of by raising. [Colloq.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heptamerous \Hep*tam"er*ous\, a. [Hepta- + Gr. [?] part.] (Bot.)
      Consisting of seven parts, or having the parts in sets of
      sevens. --Gray.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heptandrian \Hep*tan"dri*an\, Heptandrous \Hep*tan"drous\, a.
      [Cf. F. heptandre.] (Bot.)
      Having seven stamens.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heptandrian \Hep*tan"dri*an\, Heptandrous \Hep*tan"drous\, a.
      [Cf. F. heptandre.] (Bot.)
      Having seven stamens.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heptane \Hep"tane\, n. [Gr. "epta` seven.] (Chem.)
      Any one of several isometric hydrocarbons, {C7H16}, of the
      paraffin series (nine are possible, four are known); -- so
      called because the molecule has seven carbon atoms.
      Specifically, a colorless liquid, found as a constituent of
      petroleum, in the tar oil of cannel coal, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heptangular \Hep*tan"gu*lar\, a. [Hepta- + angular: cf. F.
      heptangulaire. Cf. {Septangular}.]
      Having seven angles.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heptene \Hep"tene\, n. [Gr. "epta` seven.] (Chem.)
      Same as {Heptylene}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heptylene \Hep"tyl*ene\, n. (Chem.)
      A colorless liquid hydrocarbon, {C7H14}, of the ethylene
      series; also, any one of its isomers. Called also {heptene}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heptene \Hep"tene\, n. [Gr. "epta` seven.] (Chem.)
      Same as {Heptylene}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heptylene \Hep"tyl*ene\, n. (Chem.)
      A colorless liquid hydrocarbon, {C7H14}, of the ethylene
      series; also, any one of its isomers. Called also {heptene}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heptine \Hep"tine\, n. [Heptane + -ine.] (Chem.)
      Any one of a series of unsaturated metameric hydrocarbons,
      {C7H12}, of the acetylene series.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heptone \Hep"tone\, n. [Gr. "epta` seven.] (Chem.)
      A liquid hydrocarbon, {C7H10}, of the valylene series.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hippodame \Hip"po*dame\, n. [Cf. F. hippopotame.]
      A fabulous sea monster. [Obs.] --Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hippotomy \Hip*pot"o*my\, n. [Gr. "i`ppos horse + [?] to cut:
      cf. F. hippotomie.]
      Anatomy of the horse.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hop-o'-my-thumb \Hop"-o'-my-thumb"\, Hop-thumb \Hop"-thumb"\, n.
      A very diminutive person. [Colloq.] --liwell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hop-thumb \Hop"-thumb`\, n.
      See {Hop-o'-my-thumb}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hybodont \Hyb"o*dont\, a. [Gr. [?] hump + [?], [?], a tooth.]
      (Paleon.)
      Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an extinct genus of sharks
      ({Hybodus}), especially in the form of the teeth, which
      consist of a principal median cone with smaller lateral ones.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hypidiomorphic \Hy*pid`i*o*mor"phic\, a. [Pref. hypo- +
      idiomorphic.] (Crystallog.)
      Partly idiomorphic; -- said of rock a portion only of whose
      constituents have a distinct crystalline form. --
      {Hy*pid`i*o*mor"phic*al*ly}, adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hypidiomorphic \Hy*pid`i*o*mor"phic\, a. [Pref. hypo- +
      idiomorphic.] (Crystallog.)
      Partly idiomorphic; -- said of rock a portion only of whose
      constituents have a distinct crystalline form. --
      {Hy*pid`i*o*mor"phic*al*ly}, adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      Note: In the expressions [bd]to be, or dwell, upon land,[b8]
               [bd]to go, or fare, on land,[b8] as used by Chaucer,
               land denotes the country as distinguished from the
               town.
  
                        A poor parson dwelling upon land [i.e., in the
                        country].                                       --Chaucer.
  
      3. Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet
            land; good or bad land.
  
      4. The inhabitants of a nation or people.
  
                     These answers, in the silent night received, The
                     kind himself divulged, the land believed. --Dryden.
  
      5. The mainland, in distinction from islands.
  
      6. The ground or floor. [Obs.]
  
                     Herself upon the land she did prostrate. --Spenser.
  
      7. (Agric.) The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one
            of several portions into which a field is divided for
            convenience in plowing.
  
      8. (Law) Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows,
            pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it,
            whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand
            of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate. --Kent.
            Bouvier. Burrill.
  
      9. (Naut.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat;
            the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also
            {landing}. --Knight.
  
      10. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations,
            or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so
            treated, as the level part of a millstone between the
            furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun
            between the grooves.
  
      {Land agent}, a person employed to sell or let land, to
            collect rents, and to attend to other money matters
            connected with land.
  
      {Land boat}, a vehicle on wheels propelled by sails.
  
      {Land blink}, a peculiar atmospheric brightness seen from sea
            over distant snow-covered land in arctic regions. See {Ice
            blink}.
  
      {Land breeze}. See under {Breeze}.
  
      {Land chain}. See {Gunter's chain}.
  
      {Land crab} (Zo[94]l.), any one of various species of crabs
            which live much on the land, and resort to the water
            chiefly for the purpose of breeding. They are abundant in
            the West Indies and South America. Some of them grow to a
            large size.
  
      {Land fish} a fish on land; a person quite out of place.
            --Shak.
  
      {Land force}, a military force serving on land, as
            distinguished from a naval force.
  
      {Land, ho!} (Naut.), a sailor's cry in announcing sight of
            land.
  
      {Land ice}, a field of ice adhering to the coast, in
            distinction from a floe.
  
      {Land leech} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of
            blood-sucking leeches, which, in moist, tropical regions,
            live on land, and are often troublesome to man and beast.
           
  
      {Land measure}, the system of measurement used in determining
            the area of land; also, a table of areas used in such
            measurement.
  
      {Land, [or] House}, {of bondage}, in Bible history, Egypt; by
            extension, a place or condition of special oppression.
  
      {Land o' cakes}, Scotland.
  
      {Land of Nod}, sleep.
  
      {Land of promise}, in Bible history, Canaan: by extension, a
            better country or condition of which one has expectation.
           
  
      {Land of steady habits}, a nickname sometimes given to the
            State of Connecticut.
  
      {Land office}, a government office in which the entries upon,
            and sales of, public land are registered, and other
            business respecting the public lands is transacted. [U.S.]
           
  
      {Land pike}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The gray pike, or sauger.
            (b) The Menobranchus.
  
      {Land service}, military service as distinguished from naval
            service.
  
      {Land rail}. (Zo[94]l)
            (a) The crake or corncrake of Europe. See {Crake}.
            (b) An Australian rail ({Hypot[91]nidia Phillipensis});
                  -- called also {pectoral rail}.
  
      {Land scrip}, a certificate that the purchase money for a
            certain portion of the public land has been paid to the
            officer entitled to receive it. [U.S.]
  
      {Land shark}, a swindler of sailors on shore. [Sailors' Cant]
           
  
      {Land side}
            (a) That side of anything in or on the sea, as of an
                  island or ship, which is turned toward the land.
            (b) The side of a plow which is opposite to the moldboard
                  and which presses against the unplowed land.
  
      {Land snail} (Zo[94]l.), any snail which lives on land, as
            distinguished from the aquatic snails are Pulmonifera, and
            belong to the Geophila; but the operculated land snails of
            warm countries are Di[d2]cia, and belong to the
            T[91]nioglossa. See {Geophila}, and {Helix}.
  
      {Land spout}, a descent of cloud and water in a conical form
            during the occurrence of a tornado and heavy rainfall on
            land.
  
      {Land steward}, a person who acts for another in the
            management of land, collection of rents, etc.
  
      {Land tortoise}, {Land turtle} (Zo[94]l.), any tortoise that
            habitually lives on dry land, as the box tortoise. See
            {Tortoise}.
  
      {Land warrant}, a certificate from the Land Office,
            authorizing a person to assume ownership of a public land.
            [U.S.]
  
      {Land wind}. Same as {Land breeze} (above).
  
      {To make land} (Naut.), to sight land.
  
      {To set the land}, to see by the compass how the land bears
            from the ship.
  
      {To shut in the land}, to hide the land, as when fog, or an
            intervening island, obstructs the view.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hypotenuse \Hy*pot"e*nuse\, Hypothenuse \Hy*poth"e*nuse\, n. [L.
      hypotenusa, Gr. [?], prob., subtending (sc. [?]), fr. [?] to
      stretch under, subtend; [?] under + [?] to stretch. See
      {Subtend}.] (Geom.)
      The side of a right-angled triangle that is opposite to the
      right angle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hypothenal \Hy*poth"e*nal\, Hypothenar \Hy*poth"e*nar\, a.
      [Pref. hypo- + thenar.] (Anat.)
      Of or pertaining to the prominent part of the palm of the
      hand above the base of the little finger, or a corresponding
      part in the forefoot of an animal; as, the hypothenar
      eminence.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hypothenal \Hy*poth"e*nal\, Hypothenar \Hy*poth"e*nar\, a.
      [Pref. hypo- + thenar.] (Anat.)
      Of or pertaining to the prominent part of the palm of the
      hand above the base of the little finger, or a corresponding
      part in the forefoot of an animal; as, the hypothenar
      eminence.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hypothenar \Hy*poth"e*nar\, n. (Anat.)
      The hypothenar eminence.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hypothenusal \Hy*poth`e*nu"sal\, a.
      Of or pertaining to hypothenuse. [R.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hypotenuse \Hy*pot"e*nuse\, Hypothenuse \Hy*poth"e*nuse\, n. [L.
      hypotenusa, Gr. [?], prob., subtending (sc. [?]), fr. [?] to
      stretch under, subtend; [?] under + [?] to stretch. See
      {Subtend}.] (Geom.)
      The side of a right-angled triangle that is opposite to the
      right angle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hypothenuse \Hy*poth"e*nuse\, n.
      Same as {Hypotenuse}.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Hop Bottom, PA (borough, FIPS 35624)
      Location: 41.70643 N, 75.76722 W
      Population (1990): 345 (145 housing units)
      Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 18824
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